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A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of the Top-Cited Publications in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of the Top- Cited Publications in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Item Type Article; text Authors Shi, J.; Du, X.; Cavagnaro, M.J.; Li, N. Citation Shi, J., Du, X., Cavagnaro, M. J., & Li, N. (2021). A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of the Top-Cited Publications in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. Frontiers in Neurology, 12. DOI 10.3389/fneur.2021.687796 Publisher Frontiers Media S.A. Journal Frontiers in Neurology Rights Copyright © 2021 Shi, Du, Cavagnaro and Li. This is an open- access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). Download date 27/09/2021 05:55:58 Item License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Version Final published version Link to Item http://hdl.handle.net/10150/660845 ORIGINAL RESEARCH published: 09 June 2021 doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.687796 A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of the Top-Cited Publications in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Jian Shi 1, Xianping Du 2, María José Cavagnaro 3 and Na Li 4* 1 Department of Spine Surgery, The Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China, 2 Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ, United States, 3 College of Medicine, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, United States, 4 Department of Radiology, Third Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, China Background: For measuring their impact in scientific research, the citation count of the publications is used in the bibliometric analysis, though still in the bibliometric analysis, there is no comprehensive summary of mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) research. This article intends to provide the physicians and the neuroscientists with a reference guide to assess the most influential publications written on this subject through a macroscopic view of the research activities on mTBI. Edited by: Methods: The database of the Web of Science was used to compile the 100 top- Tony L. Strickland, ranking publications on mTBI. The selected publications were evaluated on the basis of Sports Concussion Institute, the several categorizations including the type of the publications, number of citations, United States country of origin, and year of publication. Reviewed by: Dimitrios Giakoumettis, Results: Between 1946 and 2020, the 13,040 publications that were published were Pediatric Hospital of Athens, Greece included in the database. The least cited publications received 274 citations, while the Andy Wai Kan Yeung, The University of Hong Kong, China most cited received 1,748. Altogether, 71 publications were from the USA while 29 were *Correspondence: from other countries. Among all the institutions, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Na Li Center led the list with six publications. Around 100 papers, mostly on the clinical studies [email protected] in the categories of neurology and neurosciences, were published in 54 different journals. Specialty section: Conclusions: This study provides both a transverse section summary and historical This article was submitted to Neurotrauma, retrospect for the clinical advances of mTBI, and the publications of important a section of the journal observations that contributed a significant impact on the treatment and prevention of Frontiers in Neurology mTBI had been identified. Received: 30 March 2021 Keywords: mild traumatic brain injury, top-cited publications, bibliometric analysis, visualization, neurotrauma Accepted: 27 April 2021 Published: 09 June 2021 Citation: INTRODUCTION Shi J, Du X, Cavagnaro MJ and Li N (2021) A Bibliometric Analysis and Visualization of the Top-Cited In the United States with the incidence of around 2.5 million emergency department visits Publications in Mild Traumatic Brain per year, Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is known to be the most common form of Injury. Front. Neurol. 12:687796. traumatic brain injury (1). With the deepening of research on mTBI, more and more academic doi: 10.3389/fneur.2021.687796 papers have been published. The information in the database will also be more complex, Frontiers in Neurology | www.frontiersin.org 1 June 2021 | Volume 12 | Article 687796 Shi et al. Bibliometric-Analysis of Top-Cited mTBI Publications making it increasingly difficult for clinicians to find the most publications in the field of mTBI were identified and reviewed. needed and more valuable research. Therefore, requirements As illustrated in Figure 1, all keywords were continuously filtered for improving the deep understanding of mTBI, decreasing and finally stopped at 13,040 where the number of publications the morbidity, and improving the management of mTBI are stabilized, to ensure the relevance and the breadth of the search. indispensably needed. After confirming the search scope, next comes the recognition Citation rate is an important index to quantify the quality of the 100 top-cited publications from the 13,040 publications, of publications and research, although the number of citations which were arranged in reverse chronological order. Then, for one article cannot completely reflect the level and academic screening of the relevant publications was done by three quality of the research, indicating in its category, how celebrated independent researchers. After reading the full text and that article has been (2, 3). Based on the number of quantitative abstract of each selected article, data collection was completed laws, in the analysis of research literature in information according to: years, journals, authors, countries (refer to sciences, bibliometrics has become a certified method. It is being corresponding authors’ affiliations), institutions, study fields, extensively used in multiple disciplines and clinical specialties, publishers, article types, impact factors, and research methods. including cardiology, gastroenterology, anesthesiology, urology, By logging into certain other search platforms like PubMed, orthopedics, oncology, and obstetrics/gynecology (4–10). Sciencedirect, Springerlink, and BioOne, publications without However, bibliometric analysis has not yet been used to the complete information and full text were obtained. In addition, field of mTBI. Hence, this study has been intended to render we excluded publications (a) ranking below 150 and (b) about insights and perspectives in the field of mTBI of the most cited primary cerebroma such as pituitary adenomas, schwannomas, publications. The evolving trends in highly cited articles could pineocytomas, and etc. according to the selection criteria. enable the researchers to access vital information regarding the Contributions to the design and concept of the study were made requisite citation classics in the field and the overall development by all the authors. in this field around the world could also be understood and promoted to a certain extent by the bibliometric analysis RESULTS of mTBI. The Basic Characteristics of the 100 METHODS Top-Cited Publications The total number of literatures extracted from the Web of Science Three independent researchers on June 4, 2020 made use was 13,040. After our screening, we reached results that the of the Web of Science (WOS), the most professional and article with the largest citation number, 1,749 times, was an authoritative citation indexing database, to recognize the 100 top- epidemiology research on a combat-related mild traumatic brain cited publications in the field of mTBI. The keywords “mTBI,” injury in about 2,525 U.S. Army infantry soldiers published in “mild TBI,” or “mild traumatic brain injury” were used to search 2008 in the New England Journal of Medicine (“Mild traumatic the database. Publications specific to mTBI were identified. There brain injury in US Soldiers returning from Iraq”). In the Annals were no restrictions on the article types. The 100 top-cited of Emergency Medicine, the article in 2008 on a clinical policy FIGURE 1 | Flow chart showing the methodology used in the study. Frontiers in Neurology | www.frontiersin.org 2 June 2021 | Volume 12 | Article 687796 Shi et al. Bibliometric-Analysis of Top-Cited mTBI Publications TABLE 1 | Country distribution of the top-cited articles. Country Record count USA 71 Canada 6 Australia 5 Sweden 4 Netherlands 4 Germany 4 UK 3 New Zealand 1 Finland 1 Belgium 1 Total 100 FIGURE 3 | Distribution of the top-cited articles per year. Altogether, 54 journals were included with the leading of: JAMA- Journal of The American Medical Association (n = 9), New England Journal of Medicine (n = 5), Neurology (n = 5), Journal of Neurotrauma (n = 5), Lancet Neurology (n = 4), and others (n = 72). Listed as the first authors, there were around 10 authors who had contributed more than two top-cited publications. Polderman K H, the author of four of the top 100 publications led the list. Nine other authors, with two of the top 100 publications each, followed. Table 4 enlists these 10 authors. FIGURE 2 | Country distribution of the top-cited articles. The institution with the largest number of publications was led by the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (n = 6), = research on evidence-based recommendations of select issues in followed by the Virginia Commonwealth University (n 4). The the management of adult mild traumatic brain injury was the remaining different institutions like the University of California one with the least citations numbering 262 (“Clinical policy: Los Angeles, Columbia University, Cornell University Weill neuroimaging and decision-making in adult mild traumatic Medical College, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical
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